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prostitute. The free _hetairae_, indeed, subsequently arose, educated women
having no taint of the _dikterion_, but they likewise had no official part
in public worship.[141] The primitive conception of the sanctity of sexual
intercourse in the divine service had been utterly lost.

A fairly typical example of the conditions existing among savages
is to be found in the South Sea Island of Rotuma, where
"prostitution for money or gifts was quite unknown." Adultery
after marriage was also unknown. But there was great freedom in
the formation of sexual relationships before marriage (J. Stanley
Gardiner, _Journal Anthropological Institute_, February, 1898, p.
409). Much the same is said of the Bantu Ba mbola of Africa (_op.
cit._, July-December, 1905, p. 410).

Among the early Cymri of Wales, representing a more advanced
social stage, prostitution appears to have been not absolutely
unknown, but public prostitution was punished by loss of valuable
privileges (R.B. Holt, "Marriage Laws and Customs of the Cymri,"
_Journal Anthropological Institute_, August-November, 1898, pp.
161-163).

Prostitution was practically unknown in Burmah, and regarded as
shameful before the coming of the English and the example of the
modern Hindus. The missionaries have unintentionally, but
inevitably, favored the growth of prostitution by condemning free
unions (_Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle_, November, 1903, p.
720). The English brought prostitution to India. "That was not
specially the fault of the English," said a Brahmin to Jules
Bois, "it is the crime of your civilization. We have never had
prostitutes. I mean by that horrible word the brutalized servants
of the gross desire of the passerby. We had, and we have, castes
of singers and dancers who are married to trees--yes, to
trees--by touching ceremonies which date from Vedic times; our
priests bless them and receive much money from them. They do not
refuse themselves to those who love them and please them. Kings
have made them rich. They represent all the arts; they are the
visible beauty of the universe" (Jules Bois, _Visions de l'Inde_,
p. 55).

Religious prostitutes, it may be added, "the servants of the
god," are connected with temples in Southern India and the
Deccan. They are devoted to their sacred calling from their
earliest